The Tech Jawn: Black Tech Enthusiasts Covering The Week's Tech News And How Tech Affects Black Culture – Details, episodes & analysis

iOS 18 has been released and is now available. We cover a few of the new features and ponder if you should go ahead and update now, or, wait until 18.1 comes next month with Apple Intelligence.

The Fearless Fund, which awarded $20,000 grants specifically to Black women-led businesses, shut its Striver’s grant as part of a settlement in its appeals case.

Oprah Winfrey did an ABC special on artificial intelligence, and OpenAI’s Sam Altman seemed to remove some of her skepticism about AI.

And Amazon orders all of its corporate employees back into the office 5 days per week starting in January.

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In this episode of The Tech Jawn, we are joined by Malcolm Coley, Chief Technology Officer at Futures First Gaming, who chops it up with us about all the things announced at Apple’s iPhone 16 “Glowtime” event before telling us a bit more about Futures First Gaming, a STEM.org Accredited Ed. Tech, Media, and Esports Entertainment company that convenes esports enthusiasts to engage in competitive and recreational gaming events, fosters a gaming community, and presents opportunities for participants to explore educational and career development pathways in science, technology, art, and relevant esports disciplines.

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Multi-Purpose-Tap could make mobile NFC payments more useful and more complicated. The new concept could allow you to tap your phone, pay for alcohol, and get carded all at the same time.

Morehouse College launches 3D, AI, Teaching Assistants in its Metaversity. They probably don’t need to be 3D, a chat interface would suffice, and we hope they don’t displace real human TAs.

Middle school students in a Philly suburb cyberbully and defame 20 teachers to little to no consequence… At least thus far.

Microsoft’s AI CEO believes content on the internet is freeware unless specifically otherwise stated.

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The iPhone 14 launch isn’t going that smoothly for Apple. iMessage and Facetime aren’t working for many after activation, some 14 Pro and Pro Max freeze after data transfers, and there are a lot of videos of the 48-megapixel camera acting weird with third-party apps.

Uber confirmed that it took several key systems down in response to a cybersecurity breach allegedly perpetrated by an 18-year-old hacker.

And Customs & Border Protection can access your cell phones and other electronic devices without a warrant and even copy data and hold it for years. Here are a few ways you can protect yourself when traveling internationally.

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This week’s episode of The Tech Jawn is mostly about the Apple Event and all the new gadgets that are coming out. We talk about the iPhone 14 and 14 Pro, the new Apple Watch Series 8 and Ultra, and we mention the new AirPods Pro 2.

But before we get to all the Apple news we talk about Patreon laying off its entire security team, apparently outsourcing everything, and how it probably should have better prepared for the announcements of both.

We've got all this and more for you in episode 51 of The Tech Jawn

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The Tech Jawn took Labor Day off and didn’t record a new episode this week.  We didn’t, however, want to leave the feed empty, so, we put together a quick highlight reel from some of our favorite moments on the show. 

We’ll be back next week, September 13, with a brand new episode, so, until then… Enjoy

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Twitter’s former Security Chief blows the whistle alleging Twitter misled the public on problems with its security and with bot accounts.

Cosmetics company Sephora will pay $1.2 million in the first major settlement with the state of California’s Consumer Privacy Act for selling users' data without permission.

A federal judge sided with a Cleveland State University student stating that scanning his room before an online test violated his 4th Amendment rights.

And yes, the computer-generated, virtual avatar, FN Meka, created by two non-black executives which leans into racist stereotypes and tropes, is a form of digital blackface.

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Apple wants employees back in the office for a hybrid work week, but, some employees want to remain remote.  Something has got to give, but, we don’t think it's going to be Apple.

A husband of a slain wife is sentenced to 65 years in prison after her Fitbit data told a different story about how and when she was murdered.

We thought facial recognition policy was bad in the United States but, New Delhi police say hold my beer.  It uses data with an only 80% match threshold as evidence for potential prosecution.

And Big Data and AI-powered chatbots are enhancing the college experience helping with everything from admissions to recognizing signs of depression.

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It only took one weekend of interacting with people for Meta’s new Blenderbot 3.0 AI chatbot to turn racist.

WeWork co-founder and ousted former CEO, Adam Neumann, secures $350 in venture capital for his new startup Flow. Isn’t that kinda like failing forward?

HBO and Discovery+ are officially merging in 2023, Disney Plus sets a launch date for its new ads-supported tier, and, YouTube advances plans for a video marketplace.

And the story of the 17-year-old girl and her mother being charged with various crimes after a medication-induced abortion based on evidence from the teenager’s private Facebook messages illustrates just how important it is to absolutely secure your digital footprint.

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Apple doesn’t want any supply chain disruption in China over Made in Taiwan labels so it's asking its Taiwanese-based suppliers to add Made in China labeling to their products.

TikTok’s contracted moderators are allegedly requiring employees to watch actual child abuse videos as part of its training program.

Technology exists to determine if a child has been left behind in a locked car to help prevent hot car deaths, but, the battle for years has been to get auto manufacturers to implement it.

And the video social media platform Triller wooed Black creators with the promise of monthly payments and equity in the company, but, slow payments and no payments, according to program participants have been a problem since the program's inception.

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